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δοκεῖς (dokeis)

δοκεῖς is an Ancient Greek form of δοκέω, meaning “to seem, think”. It is the 2nd person singular present active indicative.

Found 463 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.11.118: … ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ ἐρώτημα, οὗ ἦν ἀρραβὼν ἡ ἰσχάς. πάλιν δὲ ἰδὼν τὸν Κράτητα χειμῶνος συγκεκαυμένον, ὦ Κράτης, εἶπε, δοκεῖς μοι χρείαν ἔχειν ἱματίου καινοῦ. [ὅπερ ἦν νοῦ καὶ ἱματίου.] καὶ τὸν ἀχθεσθέντα παρῳδῆσαι εἰς αὐτὸν οὕτω· καὶ …

Euripides, Heracles 341: σὺ δʼ ἦσθʼ ἄρʼ ἥσσων ἢ ʼδόκεις εἶναι φίλος.

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 336: … γράμμασι. τὸ γὰρ μηδένα ἂν τὴν ἐκείνου δόξαν ὑπερβαλέσθαι σὲ τὸν λέγοντα εἶναι, πόσον τι χρὴ νομίζειν ἐκείνῳ; Δοκεῖς δέ μοι καὶ τούτους ἀπεσταλκέναι πρὶν ἢ τὸν Φιρμῖνον ἰδεῖν· οὐ γὰρ ἂν αὐτὸν οὐκ εἶχε τὰ γράμματα. καὶ νῦν τί π …

All forms of δοκέω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.